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On February 15, 2023, the Federal Bureau of Investigation opened a federal civil rights investigation into the jail after dozens of inmate deaths in the past few years: 21 in 2021, 28 in 2022, and 4 in the first two months of 2023.[21]
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/15/1157215405/fbi-jail-deaths-harris-county-houston-civil-rights-investigations
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>4 sheriff’s deputies from same Texas department die by suicide in just a few weeks span: report
>February 15, 2023, the Federal Bureau of Investigation opened a federal civil rights investigation into the jail
Senators urge investigation into alleged trafficking of underage border crossers
by ALEC SCHEMMEL | The National DeskTue, December 6th 2022 at 5:25 PM
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Following whistleblower testimony, three Republican U.S. Senators sent a letter to the chairman of the U.S. Senate Homeland Security Committee calling on him to investigate claims that migrant children are being put in the hands of human traffickers.
Last week, the investigative journalism outletProject Veritas spoke withTara Lee Rodas of the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity & Efficiency (CIGIE),an agency set up to address integrity, economic, and effectiveness issues within the federal government.
In 2021, Rodas volunteered to assist the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) with the processing of unaccompanied minors caught trying to enter the U.S. and was deployed to an emergency intake center in Pomona, California.
“We’re looking at taxpayer-funded child trafficking,” Rodas told The National Desk(TND) in a separate, sit-down interview. “If I hadn’t seen it myself, I couldn’t believe it.”
Rodas told TND sex trafficking, labor trafficking and even organ harvesting are all points of concern for migrant children put in the custody of criminal actors.
Rodas said she can’t independently verify whether organ trafficking was indeed taking place through the U.S.’s sponsorship program for unaccompanied minors, but she concluded “we don’t know what’s happening to these children.”
U.S. Senators Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., Rick Scott, R-Fla. and Josh Hawley, R-Mo., penned a letter sent to Rep. Gary Peters, D-Mich., on Monday, calling on him to conduct a hearing looking into the allegations put forth by Rodas.
The most reprehensible claim by Ms. Rodas occurred when she raised concerns to command center executives about placing another unaccompanied child in a questionable home,” the senators noted in their letter to the Homeland Security Committee chairman. “According to Ms. Rodas, someone told her, ‘I think you need to understand we only get sued if we keep kids in care too long. We don’t get sued by traffickers.’”
The senators said that after Ms. Rodas’s whistleblowing, the Senate Homeland Security Committee cannot let the Biden administration continue to “dodge scrutiny over its inhumane border crisis.”
According to Rodas, “all of the evidence exists” for HHS to look into these suspicious sponsors.
“HHS has all of the evidence of where all of the sponsors are, what they’re addresses are,” Rodas told TND.
Rodas added that data can help indicate where this trafficking might be taking place.
“[W]e sent many children to Houston, Texas – I believe it was more than 600 children to Houston alone – and we had a very high-level suspected trafficking case, where we sent many children to Gulf Freeway,” Rodas said. “And that’s where they went and looked, and we know for sure based on the data in the UAC portal, which is their database, that there are over 300 children in a few square miles and that’s where the one child said, ‘I’m getting pimped out by my aunt.’”
“When we have the child safely in our care, it is our responsibility to whom we give this child,” Rodas insisted.
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